Addis Ababa, August 5, 2014 (SSNA) — Early this week, a militia group calling itself Mabanese Defence Forces started ethnically based killings in the oil-rich Upper Nile State. The carnage left at least six people dead. All the dead were humanitarian aid workers serving the needy people in and around Maban County, Upper Nile State….

Juba, August 1, 2014 (SSNA) — The chairman of the South Sudan Civil Society Alliance, Deng Athuai Mawiir, has survived an assassination attempt with at least one serious injury. The shooting occurred on Friday in the South Sudanese capital, Juba. A government source who spoke to the South Sudan News Agency on condition of anonymity…

Addis Ababa, July 21, 2014 (SSNA) — A high level delegation of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-in Opposition (SPLM-O) arrived at the Entebbe International Airport early Monday to meet Uganda’s Museveni; but the Ugandan government refused to receive the delegation at Uganda’s main airport, Entebbe. Many regional observers said Uganda’s refusal to receive South Sudanese…

Washington, DC, June 26, 2014 (SSNA) — The Republic of South Sudan has been named the world’s most fragile country by the United States-based research institution, The Fund for Peace. In its 2014 report titled: “Fragile States Index 2014”, the agency places South Sudan on top of its list under what it calls Very High…

Juba, June 13, 2014 (SSNA) — The government of the Republic of South Sudan is caught off guard and alarmed by the recent disclosure by the Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, who publicly admitted in a closed-door IGAD meeting in Ethiopia that there was no coup and that the nearly six months old conflict was in…

Juba, May 31, 2014 (SSNA) — A high level government source in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, reported that at least twenty (20) bodies with their heads cut off lay in Juba’s Teaching Hospital. The source added that there was a security presence in and around the hospital. In a chilling message to the South Sudan…

Addis Ababa, May 9, 2014 (SSNA) — Leaders of South Sudan’s warring factions have on Friday signed a peace deal in Ethiopia paving the way for the peace talks to continue. South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardiit and his main rival, Former Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny-Dhurghon, agreed the pact in the Ethiopian Capital,…

Washington, DC, May 6, 2014 (SSNA) — The United States Treasury Department has on Tuesday issued sanctions against South Sudanese military Generals, Maj. General Peter Gadet Yak and Maj. General Marial Chanuong. The move comes just days after the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced that Kiir has agreed to hold direct talks with…

Juba, April 23, 2014 (SSNA) — The president of South Sudan Salva kir Mayardiit has removed his longtime army chief, Lt. General James Hoth Mia. Kiir issued a presidential decree on Wednesday removing Mai and replaced him with Paul Malong Awan. Awan is the Governor of Northern Bahr el Ghazal State. The president also sacked…

Bor, April 17, 2014 (SSNA) — Armed Youth alleged to come from Bor community had on Thursday stormed UNMISS compound in Bor, the capital of Jonglei State, killing women and children from the Nuer ethnic group. At least 43 civilians have been killed when the United Nations Peacekeepers failed to block the heavily armed angry…